Reply #14: Here's another article about it, still picts. It is MUCH worse hearing and seeing than reading it [View All]

[uppityperson]

I've been upset about this since it happened but watching and hearing this made me cry and then get really pissed off. I know, I am uppity but fuck.

If I am quietly walking down the street with an apple in my hand, and take out my swiss army knife to cut it up, and Cop Birk sees me, walks up behind me yelling "hey hey drop the knife", if I turn to see if he is yelling at me.....he will shoot me? Yes, I also am hard of hearing though not as deaf as John Williams, but I sure would turn to see who was yelling.

He was shot 4 times in the right side of his body. He wasn't facing Birk. He had a "stern look" on his face? W.T.F?

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2013443640_policeshooting16m.html

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About four hours after the shooting, Birk "made a quite different statement," describing the 10-second encounter as an extended, threatening confrontation that forced him to shoot as a last resort, Ford said in his filing. The statement, also included in Ford's filing, is the first account of the officer's version of the shooting to be made public.

Birk — after consulting with a police-union representative and presumably a legal representative — wrote in a two-page written statement that Williams had been "brandishing the knife, holding it up in front of him in a very confrontational posture," according to the filing.

Birk, 27, who joined the Police Department in July 2008, wrote that Williams looked at him with his "jaw ... set and his expression ... stern," then "continued to look in my direction with a very serious expression" after being told to drop the knife, the documents say.